Thanks @Beto Ojeda, and thanks to @Cindy Preta as well for persuading me to play some more! I knew you would play again and surpass my score. 72 is a whole new level for me, unreachable at the moment!
Ok so I cheated at KitKut for a long time because I was switching on and off the cut, so in fact I was playing boost champ instead of kit kut. I realised that and am now trying to detect cut without switching on and off the EQ... And I suck at it n_n Boosted frequencies are IMO pretty easy to detect because you can boost frequencies with your mouth, doing a O shaped type of stuff. But I didn't find a way to relate to cutting, which turns the exercice as a spectrum analysis on my end. It does work a bit because after all those games I tend to know the samples, but it seems to me like a memory game, and I would never be able to apply this in context of a real mix or production.
I'd love some advice on what to listen here, and if there's a trick like the O shaped mouth that helped me figuring out the boost. And if evertything I described seems normal to you, the feedback is welcome as well.
I wish I had better advice but I'm in the same boat. That game is WAY harder to play if you're trying to train your ear rather than max your score lol.
It helps a little if I close my eyes and actively think - if I were mixing this and had only ONE shot to boost something to fix this sound, where would I boost? Maybe that's obvious, but it helps a bit. That's still one of the hardest games for me.
Unfortunately I don't have any advice either, but funnily enough I was doing exactly the same thing until yesterday I had the same realisation that I wasn't learning how to hear cuts. My method now is to turn the EQ off immediately when the sample started and listen until I felt like I have the full picture of the audio in my head. Then I turn on the EQ and try and figure out what's missing.
It had mixed results yesterday, but at least I know I'm actually training the right thing now.
Interesting, because i still also try to improve in this game (the real way). And i think, hearing cuts (or parts of the spectrum that are a bit low in energy) is also important for mixing. My best method is, to sweep up the frequency range in my mind and at the cornerstones think, whether i hear this frequency in the mix or not. Because i trained boost champ quite a lot, i have the sound of each frequency range in my mind.
So start at 150 hz, then 250 hz, 500 hz, 1k, 2k, 4k, 6-7k and 10k and above for example
For example: Then i realize oh, i hear the 500 hz, and i hear the 2000 hz but not so much the 1000 hz range, so it must be in this range.
Sometimes i try to narrow it down in the first few seconds to is it above 1k or below 1k. And then i narrow it down from there
But yeah. Still trying to improve. The method with the sweeping up also came from this forum actually.
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